(Iowa City, Iowa), 1977-11-02
ow available paperback, Wednesday November 2, 1977 Vol. 110, No. 90 Iowa CitY's © 1977, Student Publications Inc., 10 cents ·Morning newspaper Sturgis bullies witness GlASS BEADS. AND BRACEl£lS tying him to Oswald NEW YORK (UPI) - Convicted years In prison. blatt, argued that the allegations against Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis was Sturgis, a Cuban with ties to the CIA Sturgis were based "a hearsay statement held in $25,000 baU Tuesday on charges of and anti-Castro groups, was arrested by a psychotic woman who is interested threatening a government witness who shortly before midnight Monday on a only in selling her book." He called the reportedly told a congressional com complaint sworn out against him by charges ridiculous. mittee she went with Sturgis and Lee Marita Lorenz, who reportedly was in Lorenz was Castro's lover in the Harvey Oswald to Dallas three days volved in a botcbed CIA plot to 1950's and later allegedly was involved in before President Kennedy's assas$lna- assassinate Fidel Castro. a plot to polson the Cuban leader. In her complaint, Lorenz alleged However, she bungled the job when she that Sturgis "instilled in her a fear that put the poison in a jar of cold cream and she would be kiI1ed." it melted before it could be used to kill the Police said Sturgis telephoned threats Cuban president, congres:lional sources to Lorenz In an attempt to frigbten said. her from testifying before the House Lorenz, a former CIA and FBI Committee on Assassinations. operative, reportedly told the committee Assistant District Attorney Alan that she accompanied Oswald, Sturgis Broomer had asked for bail of $100,000, and others to Dallas on Nov.
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